@pickpocket The criteria folks use is not always simple black and white. Many like to support certain fields or majors - like nursing, religious, art, science, or whatever. One couple likes to support two students who are unlikely to get other scholarships - one lad and one lass. Both of these categories often have several students to choose from. I’ve no idea how they make their final selection, but some get chosen and others don’t. Different years there can be siblings who are eligible for the same scholarship and one gets it but the others don’t. We were in that category ourselves with our three lads with a 5 digit value scholarship - wasn’t even our highest scorer who got it, nor did we have two in college at that time. We never felt slighted. We were happy to have a significant amount less we had to pay. It would have been nice for the others to have been chosen as well, esp the lad who worked the hardest for his schooling, but we never felt slighted. Maybe that’s just us.
This is life. Their money, their choice. When we donate it’s our money and our choice.